THESE Records are not based on
military returns, and are therefore not, in all cases, complete. They
have been obtained by correspondence with commanding officers, pipe
presidents, pipe majors and many others, but the exigencies of war have
prevented the information so obtained being absolutely accurate.

In many cases, units, reduced by fighting to mere
cadres, have been absorbed into other units and their pipers scattered;
in others, the field records of the units themselves have been lost or
have ceased to be available and, in several, correspondence has been
abruptly terminated by the correspondent himself being killed or
wounded.

In the
circumstances it is satisfactory that so much information has been
obtained.

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